Constance Phillott

Constance Phillott (1842 – 30 March 1931) was a British painter.[1]

Constance Phillott
Born1842
Died1931
NationalityBritish
Portrait of Eugénie Sellers Strong, 1890

Phillott was born in Bloomsbury, London.[2] She was the second daughter of Arthur Phillott (1813-1853), a physician, and Frances Caroline Frend (1811-1912).[3] Her mother, who died aged 102, was the daughter of reformer William Frend. She had an older sister, Mary Agnes (1840-1921), who married John Robert Seeley in 1869, and a younger sister, Edith Frend Phillott (1852-1927).[4] She got her education at the Royal Academy schools, along with her cousin William Frend De Morgan and his later wife, Mary Evelyn Pickering. Phillott exhibited with a number of societies, including the Royal Academy, the Society of British Artists, multiple galleries, such as the Grosvenor Gallery, and she was elected an associate of the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours.[5] Constance declared her support for female suffrage and joined the London suffrage society in 1889.[6] There is no trace of her exhibiting after the 1880s, and it is unclear what happened to her at that time.[7] However, in 1891, she is listed in the census as a watercolour artist still, visiting a girls' school in Hampstead.[8]

She sometimes inscribed her work with poetry and at one point lived at 25g Stanhope Street, near Regent's Park, in London N.W.[9] Her work The Herdsmen of Admetus was included in the book Women Painters of the World. She is known for landscape, portraits and other subjects.[7]

Phillott never married, but remained living with her mother, who was widowed early, and her unmarried sister Edith, primarily in Hampstead.[10] She died at her home, 6 Downshire Hill, Hampstead, on 30 March 1931, and was buried at St John-at-Hampstead on 2 April that year.[11]

In 1997, her watercolor "Demetriki called Tito", from 1872, was included in the exhibition English Realist Watercolors, 1830-1915 at the Shepherd Gallery.[12]

References
  1. Brian Stewart & Mervyn Cutten (1997). The Dictionary of Portrait Painters in Britain up to 1920. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 1-85149-173-2.
  2. 1851 census for 4 Wimpole Street, Marylebone, on www.ancestry.co.uk
  3. GRO death index for Lewisham Union, September quarter of 1853 (vol 01d, page 398); GRO death index for Axminster, December quarter of 1912 (vol 05b, page 1)
  4. GRO marriage index for 1869; GRO death index for Hampstead, December quarter of 1921 (vol 01a, page 829); GRo death index for Hampstead, December quarter of 1927 (volume 01a, page 706); 1851 census for 4 Wimpole Street, Marylebone, on www.ancestry.co.uk
  5. Hamerton, Philip Gilbert (1882). "Art Chronicle". The Portfolio: An Artistic Periodical. 13: 98 – via ProQuest.
  6. Deborah., Cherry (2000). Beyond the frame : feminism and visual culture, Britain 1850-1900. London: Routledge. ISBN 0415107261. OCLC 45484783.
  7. Gray, Sara (2009). The Dictionary of British Women Artists. Casemate Publishers. p. 208. ISBN 9780718830847.
  8. 1891 census for 54 Belsize Park Gardens, Hampstead (The National Archives/The Genealogist)
  9. Inscriptions on painting on Christie's website
  10. Electoral registers for Hampstead, 1901-1926, on www.ancestry.co.uk; 1911 census for 14 Albion Road, Hampstead (The National Archives, on www.ancestry.co.uk)
  11. National Probate Calendar for 1931, on www.ancestry.co.uk; burial register of St John-at-Hampstead (London Metropolitan Archives, P81/JN1/097)
  12. Newall, Christopher (1997). English Realist Watercolors 1830-1915. New York: Shepherd Gallery.

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